Thanks for sharing! She is fantastic! And I agreed with her. The good thing about technology (among many bad things) is that we can be open to the world and confront different ideas and maybe find out that humans are not so different after all and we all want the same things. When that happens is less possible that the elites can divided us and make us hate each other or support wars against others. In that regard I think the vast majority of Americans live in a shelter bubble and they don't know much about the rest of the world and because of that they have very wrong ideas about other people. You lived in Germany for almost a decade so you know what I am talking about. Now that is changing, people are waking up about the evil that their country had caused and why. The truth is always liberating, of course not always nice. When I travel and people criticized the States and asked me how I can live here I always clarified that there are two realities, one is the powers that control this country, and a totally different thing is the people and the people is fantastic ( for the most part) and the system used to be also good but since the 80's we have been losing freedom of speech, economic stability and safety. But the true is that the most of the American people don't know what their government are doing the most of the time or they had been convinced that whatever they do is justified. But I see this situation changing since 9/11 and double down with the Covid protocol. This has a cost and the cost is that we will become more cautious and not so trusty as before, but so be it, we cannot afford to cover the sun with a thumb any longer. The price will be deadly.
The question is what causes them to be addicted? Addiction is certainly a powerful force, but the alcoholic's greatest fear is not getting to drink that day. Everything in their lives is centered on drinking. The fear of losing out on a drink drives the alcoholic. And, the same could be said for drugs.
I must say, then, that in our imperfect world, fear is the number one driver, next to greed. And btw, greed is an addiction and drives the beginning of dependent behavior.
John, everything said here is summed up in the first few chapters of the Bible. The opposer of truth and love used fear and greed to lure the first couple into sin, or in other words, deviation from the standards that God instituted.
Deviating from the path that was set by God is sin, and as Christ said, sin leads to death.
At this time of year, it's important to remember that Christ offered his perfect life as a ransom payment to purchase humanity from the deviation the first couple passed down to us. Our inclination is to sin. But because of that ransom payment, we have a new hope of living a life as God has determined from the beginning. A life of god-like love that is reflected by everyone who has abandoned the desire to deviate from God's standards.
''He betrayed this country!'' Mr. Gore shouted into the microphone at a rally of Tennessee Democrats here in a stuffy hotel ballroom. ''He played on our fears. He took America on an ill-conceived foreign adventure dangerous to our troops, an adventure preordained and planned before 9/11 ever took place.''
The speech had several hundred Democrats roaring their approval for Mr. Gore, the party's 2000 standard-bearer."
And Fear:
"Let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself—nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance. In every dark hour of our national life a leadership of frankness and vigor has met with that understanding and support of the people themselves which is essential to victory."
- FDR, 1933 Inaugural Address
Bearing Burden, Hardship, for Liberty:
"We shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and success of liberty."
- JFK, 1961 Inaugural Address
All the while US, UK and global leaders having just defeated totalitarianism that rode in on the back of ginned-up fear in Europe for purposes of Fascistic public-private partnership "efficiency" and Communistic all-one state "efficiency" yearning for efficiency so much they declared it:
'Damned Efficient Slavery’ vs. ‘Inefficient Freedom’
"Because the Soviets mobilize and direct all their economic resources from one centre, he said, they have a great advantage. “Vice-President Nixon called the Russian system slavery. All right, slavery it is. But damned efficient slavery...We cherish our freedom. All right, freedom it is, but sadly inefficient freedom.”
Fear and Freedom do not go together. And for those who favor "efficiency" over freedom their favorite go-to is Fear. The only way free people ever willingly give up their Freedom.
And health, illness, disease, death, are the most fearful thing humans face. And as such are the best conduit for totalitarians who loath "inefficient freedom" to employ the "Logic of Disease Politics." as this book describes was employed in China under Mao:
Rural Health Care Delivery
Modern China from the Perspective of Disease Politics
Fear of disease: How to fundamentally transform a nation of free nationalists into collectivist authoritarians. Saving just one grandma at a time. Or something like t hat.
Additionally, fear is a tool that the Neocons use to launch their evil -minded schemes. Every war, I mean every single war since the war of 1812, has used fear to launch the Neocons' schemes. Yes, even the two world wars that our government dragged us into, the tool of fear was used with perfection. America's only necessary war was in 1812; no wars have been necessary since. Staying out of unnecessary wars was one of the first principles of the American founding. Yet we deviated from that principle within a few decades. Now, Congress is never allowed to declare war; the Neocons detached that mechanism decades ago. Every conflict is a police action, allowing Neocons to wage war at any time.
"...fear is a tool that the PinkoCommies use to launch the PinkoCommies schemes...the PinkoCommies police actions, allowing PinkoCommies to wage war at any time."
Is what you sound like. Your "team" flag colors flying high in your comment. Your "team" hatred of team "Neocons" make you easy to keep you on your own team's totalitarian impulses. Pssst - the takeaway from John Leake's piece is that it's our tribal instincts that get us into trouble. Our own chosen "tribes" lead us into the greatest peril. We're pretty good at seeing our adversaries, the other "tribe" for what they are, as you've identified (correctly) "Neocons" as one of the tribes leading us into great peril. But we're weakest at identifying our own "tribe" does, following it into great peril, simply because we trust them more. And the powers that be know this. And wield our tribal team instincts against us expertly.
Yeah. Just Neocons. No other authoritarian/totalitarian/monarchical/oligarchical/socialist/communist/fascist governing model or ideology. Just Neocons.
Its not clear why this cultivated woman highlights that the word Satan(shatan) in Hebrew means...why associate jews/hebrews and satan. It' really unfortunate. Everyone knows what satan is. Why, again, connecti it to the Hebrew language.
I think that she was just making a point that the word, Satan, does come from the Hebrew language. And she she says: it means opposer or adversary. That was a big part of her speech: How the adversary/opposer is always attempting to keep up in slavery, fear, etc.
Maybe she is hinting that Satan is working through the Jews. Maybe that's what she believes. I certainly have heard people, especially those who believe the Israelis were responsible for 911, say that before. So many theories floating around ... I don't know what to believe anymore.
Laura says that the only path out of fear is self-realisation and higher awareness. Yes (John 8:32) "And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free."
But the word "truth" is plural, not singular, and it's only the truth you KNOW that will set you free
The talk was "off" in this respect. Perhaps Laura Aboli is pussy-footing around the whole truth, in order to be "inclusive" and keep the New Age spirituality groups happy? Perhaps she is scared to lay it out as scripture does?
When we commit to a relationship with Jesus, our spirit is renewed, and we renew our own minds by attending the school of the Holy Spirit, who over time, teaches us to know how much God loves us, and His nature, character and promises to us. There is a very real sense where, if we REALLY believe, then God the father, son and holy spirit come to live inside us. (John chapters 14, 15, 16, and 17), and THAT was the whole point of Jesus's sacrifice on the cross and the attendant ripping of the double curtain in the temple, which said in principle, "Through me alone, you can now BE the temple of the Holy Spirit, with a direct one-to-one direct line of communication with God and the holy spirit".
Scripture makes it clear that courage to face fear, doesn't come from SELF-realisation, or "higher awareness", but from a full-time relationship with God akin to Psalm 91 ("abiding" in the relationship, not visiting when it suits) and from fully understanding the roadblocks described in the parable of the sower (Matthew chapter 13) which underpins what hinders us, and can derail our functioning in the kingdom of God.
It is when our personal relationship with God is on solid ground, that the truth we know, sets us free, so that we have the courage to reject weaponised fear.
One of the many truths which sets us free, is 2 Timothy 1:7 "For God did not give us a spirit of timidity or cowardice or fear, but [He has given us a spirit] of power and of love and of sound judgment and personal discipline [abilities that result in a calm, well-balanced mind and self-control]."
John, really???? have we not heard these platitudes ad infinitum..Whose truth, whose realization, whose rigtheousness, whose love ????? this takes me back to the 60's...and look where that led us to this point where we repeat these same bromides. Is it really fear?? was it fear that led oountless souls to take the covid shot, or simply agreeableness, the indefatible social element that knows no end. Is it right to fear Bibi Trump, and Bibi and where that will lead us?
In some sense I write as the devil's advocate (how ironic) sensing the truths she outlines are universal, but not so temporal. thanks.
Perhaps the answer to fear, though lovely, is not quite as simple as it seems.
"Fear has taken hold of an entire generation devoid of courage, and evil, as we are witnessing, has taken root."
But it begs the question -- how was an entire generation brought to be devoid of that courage, and thus vulnerable to, and instrumental in, evil taking root through fear?
Does that kind of fear sweep through a nation like it did in Germany in WWII?
I've never understood how that can happen so seemingly swiftly and effectively.
And to say "the controllers of this world are the controllers of fear, but we needn't fight them, but the fear within," -- that sounds like double-speak. After all, dangers do exist for which a healthy fear is necessary for overcoming the danger.
I'm somewhat bothered by this video, even if the eloquence and loveliness
Thanks for sharing! She is fantastic! And I agreed with her. The good thing about technology (among many bad things) is that we can be open to the world and confront different ideas and maybe find out that humans are not so different after all and we all want the same things. When that happens is less possible that the elites can divided us and make us hate each other or support wars against others. In that regard I think the vast majority of Americans live in a shelter bubble and they don't know much about the rest of the world and because of that they have very wrong ideas about other people. You lived in Germany for almost a decade so you know what I am talking about. Now that is changing, people are waking up about the evil that their country had caused and why. The truth is always liberating, of course not always nice. When I travel and people criticized the States and asked me how I can live here I always clarified that there are two realities, one is the powers that control this country, and a totally different thing is the people and the people is fantastic ( for the most part) and the system used to be also good but since the 80's we have been losing freedom of speech, economic stability and safety. But the true is that the most of the American people don't know what their government are doing the most of the time or they had been convinced that whatever they do is justified. But I see this situation changing since 9/11 and double down with the Covid protocol. This has a cost and the cost is that we will become more cautious and not so trusty as before, but so be it, we cannot afford to cover the sun with a thumb any longer. The price will be deadly.
From my observations in life I would assert that addiction is a more powerful weapon of control than fear.
A lot of people are addicted to situations and imagery that induce fear!
And there is the fear of running out, that junkies have.
I considered all of that before commenting.
People who have something, in general, are more averse to giving it up, than even if they might gain twice as much. It is settings of the organism
At some point in fear people may flip to fighting, but you just don't see that with addicts who have a little of what they need...
I'm likely way out of my league here, but "food addiction" seems to be stronger than the fear of bad health outcomes for many people.
The question is what causes them to be addicted? Addiction is certainly a powerful force, but the alcoholic's greatest fear is not getting to drink that day. Everything in their lives is centered on drinking. The fear of losing out on a drink drives the alcoholic. And, the same could be said for drugs.
I must say, then, that in our imperfect world, fear is the number one driver, next to greed. And btw, greed is an addiction and drives the beginning of dependent behavior.
Excellent! Every church and place of worship should show this video. Our religious leaders in my view have succumbed to fear.
3/28/26
After 9/11 I decided that I would not be afraid of whatever is thrown at us.
The truth will set you free, so finding out the truth of 9/11 sets me free, as ugly as it is to realize the evil men can be capable of.
I had to know why 9/11 happened and have searched for that truth ever since.
The truth about 9/11 is the same truth about so many other evil acts we have experienced before and after. Understanding that truth sets me free.
John, everything said here is summed up in the first few chapters of the Bible. The opposer of truth and love used fear and greed to lure the first couple into sin, or in other words, deviation from the standards that God instituted.
Deviating from the path that was set by God is sin, and as Christ said, sin leads to death.
At this time of year, it's important to remember that Christ offered his perfect life as a ransom payment to purchase humanity from the deviation the first couple passed down to us. Our inclination is to sin. But because of that ransom payment, we have a new hope of living a life as God has determined from the beginning. A life of god-like love that is reflected by everyone who has abandoned the desire to deviate from God's standards.
Fear:
The 2004 Campaign: The Former Vice President;
Gore Says Bush Betrayed the U.S. by Using 9/11 as a Reason for War in Iraq
New York Times, February 9, 2004
https://web.archive.org/web/20131206134410/https://www.nytimes.com/2004/02/09/us/2004-campaign-former-vice-president-gore-says-bush-betrayed-us-using-9-11-reason.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WxGC8JaijI0
''He betrayed this country!'' Mr. Gore shouted into the microphone at a rally of Tennessee Democrats here in a stuffy hotel ballroom. ''He played on our fears. He took America on an ill-conceived foreign adventure dangerous to our troops, an adventure preordained and planned before 9/11 ever took place.''
The speech had several hundred Democrats roaring their approval for Mr. Gore, the party's 2000 standard-bearer."
And Fear:
"Let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself—nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance. In every dark hour of our national life a leadership of frankness and vigor has met with that understanding and support of the people themselves which is essential to victory."
- FDR, 1933 Inaugural Address
Bearing Burden, Hardship, for Liberty:
"We shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and success of liberty."
- JFK, 1961 Inaugural Address
All the while US, UK and global leaders having just defeated totalitarianism that rode in on the back of ginned-up fear in Europe for purposes of Fascistic public-private partnership "efficiency" and Communistic all-one state "efficiency" yearning for efficiency so much they declared it:
'Damned Efficient Slavery’ vs. ‘Inefficient Freedom’
SAN FRANCISCO (AP), January 4th, 1958
https://archive.org/details/dailycolonist0158uvic_1/mode/2up?view=theater
"Because the Soviets mobilize and direct all their economic resources from one centre, he said, they have a great advantage. “Vice-President Nixon called the Russian system slavery. All right, slavery it is. But damned efficient slavery...We cherish our freedom. All right, freedom it is, but sadly inefficient freedom.”
Fear and Freedom do not go together. And for those who favor "efficiency" over freedom their favorite go-to is Fear. The only way free people ever willingly give up their Freedom.
And health, illness, disease, death, are the most fearful thing humans face. And as such are the best conduit for totalitarians who loath "inefficient freedom" to employ the "Logic of Disease Politics." as this book describes was employed in China under Mao:
Rural Health Care Delivery
Modern China from the Perspective of Disease Politics
Springer Nature, 2013
https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-642-39982-4
That my Stack a few years ago explores:
https://freedomfox.substack.com/p/the-devious-use-of-infectious-disease
Fear of disease: How to fundamentally transform a nation of free nationalists into collectivist authoritarians. Saving just one grandma at a time. Or something like t hat.
Additionally, fear is a tool that the Neocons use to launch their evil -minded schemes. Every war, I mean every single war since the war of 1812, has used fear to launch the Neocons' schemes. Yes, even the two world wars that our government dragged us into, the tool of fear was used with perfection. America's only necessary war was in 1812; no wars have been necessary since. Staying out of unnecessary wars was one of the first principles of the American founding. Yet we deviated from that principle within a few decades. Now, Congress is never allowed to declare war; the Neocons detached that mechanism decades ago. Every conflict is a police action, allowing Neocons to wage war at any time.
"...fear is a tool that the PinkoCommies use to launch the PinkoCommies schemes...the PinkoCommies police actions, allowing PinkoCommies to wage war at any time."
Is what you sound like. Your "team" flag colors flying high in your comment. Your "team" hatred of team "Neocons" make you easy to keep you on your own team's totalitarian impulses. Pssst - the takeaway from John Leake's piece is that it's our tribal instincts that get us into trouble. Our own chosen "tribes" lead us into the greatest peril. We're pretty good at seeing our adversaries, the other "tribe" for what they are, as you've identified (correctly) "Neocons" as one of the tribes leading us into great peril. But we're weakest at identifying our own "tribe" does, following it into great peril, simply because we trust them more. And the powers that be know this. And wield our tribal team instincts against us expertly.
Best protection: Don't join teams.
Pink o commies. 😭😭😭😭 Livinen in the 1950s I see. Btw, every country has Neocons. They're just war lovers for various reasons.
Yeah. Just Neocons. No other authoritarian/totalitarian/monarchical/oligarchical/socialist/communist/fascist governing model or ideology. Just Neocons.
Sure, buddy. Smh.
Its not clear why this cultivated woman highlights that the word Satan(shatan) in Hebrew means...why associate jews/hebrews and satan. It' really unfortunate. Everyone knows what satan is. Why, again, connecti it to the Hebrew language.
I think that she was just making a point that the word, Satan, does come from the Hebrew language. And she she says: it means opposer or adversary. That was a big part of her speech: How the adversary/opposer is always attempting to keep up in slavery, fear, etc.
Maybe she is hinting that Satan is working through the Jews. Maybe that's what she believes. I certainly have heard people, especially those who believe the Israelis were responsible for 911, say that before. So many theories floating around ... I don't know what to believe anymore.
Laura says that the only path out of fear is self-realisation and higher awareness. Yes (John 8:32) "And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free."
But the word "truth" is plural, not singular, and it's only the truth you KNOW that will set you free
The talk was "off" in this respect. Perhaps Laura Aboli is pussy-footing around the whole truth, in order to be "inclusive" and keep the New Age spirituality groups happy? Perhaps she is scared to lay it out as scripture does?
When we commit to a relationship with Jesus, our spirit is renewed, and we renew our own minds by attending the school of the Holy Spirit, who over time, teaches us to know how much God loves us, and His nature, character and promises to us. There is a very real sense where, if we REALLY believe, then God the father, son and holy spirit come to live inside us. (John chapters 14, 15, 16, and 17), and THAT was the whole point of Jesus's sacrifice on the cross and the attendant ripping of the double curtain in the temple, which said in principle, "Through me alone, you can now BE the temple of the Holy Spirit, with a direct one-to-one direct line of communication with God and the holy spirit".
Scripture makes it clear that courage to face fear, doesn't come from SELF-realisation, or "higher awareness", but from a full-time relationship with God akin to Psalm 91 ("abiding" in the relationship, not visiting when it suits) and from fully understanding the roadblocks described in the parable of the sower (Matthew chapter 13) which underpins what hinders us, and can derail our functioning in the kingdom of God.
It is when our personal relationship with God is on solid ground, that the truth we know, sets us free, so that we have the courage to reject weaponised fear.
One of the many truths which sets us free, is 2 Timothy 1:7 "For God did not give us a spirit of timidity or cowardice or fear, but [He has given us a spirit] of power and of love and of sound judgment and personal discipline [abilities that result in a calm, well-balanced mind and self-control]."
John, really???? have we not heard these platitudes ad infinitum..Whose truth, whose realization, whose rigtheousness, whose love ????? this takes me back to the 60's...and look where that led us to this point where we repeat these same bromides. Is it really fear?? was it fear that led oountless souls to take the covid shot, or simply agreeableness, the indefatible social element that knows no end. Is it right to fear Bibi Trump, and Bibi and where that will lead us?
In some sense I write as the devil's advocate (how ironic) sensing the truths she outlines are universal, but not so temporal. thanks.
It was a very good talk!
Perhaps the answer to fear, though lovely, is not quite as simple as it seems.
"Fear has taken hold of an entire generation devoid of courage, and evil, as we are witnessing, has taken root."
But it begs the question -- how was an entire generation brought to be devoid of that courage, and thus vulnerable to, and instrumental in, evil taking root through fear?
Does that kind of fear sweep through a nation like it did in Germany in WWII?
I've never understood how that can happen so seemingly swiftly and effectively.
And to say "the controllers of this world are the controllers of fear, but we needn't fight them, but the fear within," -- that sounds like double-speak. After all, dangers do exist for which a healthy fear is necessary for overcoming the danger.
I'm somewhat bothered by this video, even if the eloquence and loveliness
were mesmerizing.
Fear, the common denominator in the global control system